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2010PASP..122..786H - Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 122, 786-794 (2010/July-0)

A Four-Stokes-Parameter spectral line polarimeter at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory.

HEZAREH T. and HOUDE M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We designed and built a new Four-Stokes-Parameter spectral line Polarimeter (FSPPol) for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO). The simple design of FSPPol does not include any mirrors or optical components to redirect or reimage the radiation beam and simply transmits the beam to the receiver through its retarder plates. FSPPol is currently optimized for observation in the 200-260 GHz range and measures all four Stokes parameters,,,, and . The very low level of instrument polarization makes it possible to obtain reliable measurements of the Goldreich-Kylafis effect in molecular spectral lines. Accordingly, we measured a polarization fraction of a few percent in the spectral line wings of in Orion KL/IRc2, which is consistent with previous observations. We also used FSPPol to study the Zeeman effect in the transition of CN in DR21(OH) for the first time. At this point we cannot report a Zeeman detection, but more observations are ongoing.

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